The entertainment industry has been affected by #COVID19 just like every other industry. A newly released book, Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood’s (Creative) Accounting Practices, authored by GHJ Entertainment Leaders Partner Steven Sills, Principal Peter Klass and Manager Tracy Liang, takes an in-depth look at the accounting side of the entertainment industry, provides insight into the arcane world of profit participations and discusses how streaming revenues impact reporting to the participants. Members of the entertainment industry, including talent and their representatives, will find these revenue sources a lifeline until the world returns to normal. Sills, Klass and Liang provide an overview of their new book and COVID-19 related entertainment issues in GHJ’s latest Media Clips podcast hosted by GHJ Partner Ilan Haimoff.

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Peter Klass

Peter Klass, CFE, is GHJ’s Profit Participation Services Practice Leader and has more than 20 years of entertainment accounting and audit experience specializing in profit participations and contract compliance. Peter has extensive consulting experience in connection with complex profit sharing…Learn More

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Tracy Liang

Chenxi “Tracy” Liang, CPA, has more than 10 years of experience in entertainment accounting and forensic investigations. She specializes in performing audits of the production and distribution of motion picture and television programs on behalf of investors and third-party participants as well as…Learn More

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Ilan Haimoff

Ilan Haimoff, CPA, CIA, CFE, CFF, is GHJ’s Entertainment Practice Leader. He has over 30 years of expertise in entertainment forensic accounting and his specialty in profit participation and forensic accounting makes him a trusted advisor for talent and producers alike for many years. Ilan’s role…Learn More